Portugal’s clean energy efforts
by bruno
The New York Times has an article on Portugal’s use of renewable sources. The most striking thing on the article is the following graph:
Besides Iceland, which will show no increase in their renewable energy source share, Portugal is only behind Denmark in Europe. This is great news for Portugal as long as big profitable oil reservoirs aren’t found :-) One comment out of the over two hundred about the article rightly points out that unfortunately the companies exploring these energy sources are tightly linked to the government and not very open to competition. This is called having the monopoly. This shows that even after the year 2000 the governments have a high propensity for controlling more than they should have.
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